There are some Iraqi Police and Military officials in town. They are here for training with the FBI and U.S. agencies and military officials. U.S. Army sources say the FBI training is designed to teach Iraqi police forensics skills, evidentiary proceedings and better police skills. Iraqi military officials are also here for training and will be meeting with U.S. military officials and other unnamed U.S. agencies. Iraq is preparing for the departing of U.S troops in 2011 and need to improve police and military capabilities.

During a week of intense talks here in Washington about security and cooperation in Pakistan, officials from that country have come away with at least one positive thing. The U.S. has agreed to expedite request for military equipment. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said in his own words they agreed to fast-track the requests, that have been pending for months and years, on the transfer of military equipment to Pakistan. Experts say the recent success at capturing a killing key Taliban and Al Qaida operatives help.

International cocaine trafficking is still big business in Colombia and Mexico despite the best efforts of those governments to stop them. More than two and a half tons of cocaine were intercepted in he Spanish cities of Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. Authorities say the traffickers used freight containers. And the companies where the shipments arrived had no idea drugs were being shipped through their ports. The drugs were reportedly hidden among separate cargos soft drinks and electric generators.